Yesterday, Short Order reported a horror story from a customer of People’s Bar-B-Que: Rosanna Perry says she dug into some sauce-slathered chicken and the whole piece started “writhing” with maggots. In response to the story, a health inspector made a surprise visit to the Miami soul food staple. It failed…
The most recent issue of Time magazine features a basketful of articles on organic food — an overview of the pros and cons. Except if one were to read the headline shown in photo, the assumption would be that in taste tests to be described, the panelist’s conclusions would illustrate…
Famous French gastronomer Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin once said, “Tell me what you eat and I’ll tell you what you are.” On today, primary day, we offer this message: You can often tell the true measure of a politician more by what he puts into his pie hole than by listening to…
Vino E Olio will be opening in the Design District come late next month, but this Thursday, August 26th, the restaurant’s chef Andrea Menichetti will prepare a Summer Harvest meal for the dinner club known as Conscious Bite Out.Conscious Bite Out is the brainchild of Marcela Llodra and Veronica Menin…
Josh Del Valle is fresh from the big city. The line cook made the move from NYC to Miami just four months ago to rub shoulders with Michelle Bernstein. He has a boyish charm and culinary finesse. But before attending The French Culinary Institute, the 27-year-old mixed beats in Long…
Slow Food Miami is hosting a screening of the award-winning documentary Ingredients this Thursday at Coral Gables Museum. This is the first screening on the East Coast. The film describes the farmers, chefs and the other dynamic people who are behind the movement to bring back sustainable food. Donna Reno,…
On Friday, local chefs Michelle Bernstein, Kris Wessel, and Ken Lyon simultaneously ran workshops in three high schools to introduce their partnership with Miami-Dade County Public Schools. Short Order followed Bernstein to North Miami Senior High, where she led the school’s cafeteria staff in preparing a new, healthier menu, which…
Read part one of our interview with Michael D’Andrea here.New Times: Most unusual food combination you’ve ever created or been served?Michael D’Andrea: My Macaluso’s meatball salad: the hot meatball and marinara sauce with the cold romaine and my mom’s dressing. The combinations are amazing!If you could have one last meal,…
Either a pair of respected Miami-Dade Corrections officers have concocted an outlandish, disgusting hoax for a few thousand dollars, or Miami’s best barbecue joint served maggots with its chicken. Either way, consider us grievously disillusioned…
So now it’s our eggs. It should be obvious to most people that the massive agri-businesses supplying us with much of our food supply needs oversight — real oversight, not the corrupted mimicry of such currently performed by the FDA. But with our presently dysfunctional government, chances of the gruel…
There has been surprisingly little hoopla over De Rodriguez Ocean, due to open at The Hilton Bentley at the tip of South Beach “late next month” (translation: October if we’re lucky). Maybe folks figure it’s just another branch of D. Rodriguez Cuba, although there are a couple of clear differences:…
With the surge of mobile food in the Miami area, it’s easy to forget the” Roach Coaches” that stop at construction sites and building parking lots throughout the day to offer beverages, snacks, baked goods and hot food for bargain prices.Evelyn Garcia owns and operates Lazarito Lunch Box. A no-nonsense…
When I tell Teena Borek that one of the challenges I faced when I participated in Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) was preparing all the food in each weekly share before it perished, she enthusiastically tells me about her latest discovery. “Every CSA member should have a juicer,” she says. Borek…
Place: GreenStreet Café3468 Main Hwy, Coconut Grove305-444-0244 Hours: daily, 5-7 p.m. and 11 p.m.-close. Deals: Daily specials along with $3.50 beers, $2 wine glasses, $4.50 well drinks and $6 martinis. Scene: Most people in the Grove might be surprised to find out that there is even an inside to the…
Frank Reider says, “People shouldn’t be intimidated by wine. They should come out and try and learn.” His knowledge of the Chilean and Argentinean wines in his book, Wines of Passion: The Best of South America, is remarkable. The writing is reminiscent of a tour guide, whose zeal for his…
We have reached the end of another long week Short Orderers. And we would like to thank you for commenting on our stories. Here’s some of the best blather from the past five days. For some reason, the noteworthy comments this week shared a male chauvinism theme. Thanks again readers. And…
If the Staten Island accent and amber peepers don’t get you, Michael D’Andrea’s meatballs certainly will. And then there’s his unyielding appreciation for his mama. “My Mom, our last meal was my food,” he’ll tell you with a glint in his eye. Macaluso, by the way, is his mother’s maiden…
Veronica Gessa is a sassy and well accessorized Mercadito hostess. She’s of Cuban descent and is a Miami native.The spunky 21-year old lures in patrons nightly with her long black hair and sultry dark eyes. And she boasts a confidence level only seen in locals. As she stands at the…
A stand-alone bite of next week’s Cafe review:Lobster peanut butter & jelly sandwich jolted to signature status right from the start; no doubt curiosity plays a role in so many diners ordering it (that was my impetus). Four triangular sandwich quarters of toasted, crust-less brioche are filled with pieces of…
On any day, at any given time, nearly 200 “people” can be found lounging around GreenStreet Café in Coconut Grove. Some of them pose near the bar. Some hang from chandeliers. And others stand on the ceiling in the main dining area. Luckily for the Grove and, well, society, the mob…
It has been widely reported that President Obama and U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek stopped by Jerry’s Famous Deli on South Beach after their fundraiser at the Fontainebleau. Never mind that the Prez ordered one of two corned beef sandwiches with mayonnaise (oy!) — the biggest political sandwich blunder since presidential…
Top Chef’s Andrea Curto-Randazzo, along with hubby Frank Randazzo, has finally sold Talula. The long-suffering restaurant was put on the market a few months ago, despite Andrea’s brief brush with fame on Top Chef.Coming in its place is Eden, a new restaurant concept from a high-powered team out of Las…
